sAinrim-r, ritzratmit' a, aan Weekending With the Greeks By MARY ADAMS The warm weather of the past week will be pushed into the background tonight as seven fra ternities bring out the snow and tinsel of Christmas two weeks early. Others will turn thoughts to China, old shoes, and spiders, with costumes and formals add ing to the festive air. Guests will find all the atmos phere of a New York night club at Acacia, where a formal pledge dinner • dance will be underway. The closed dinner will begin at 6:45, with dancing to the Cam puseers Orchestra starting at 9. The dance will be open. Alpha Epsilon Pi, taking, note of a new idea in fraternity par ties, will create the movie thea tre atmosphere with the showing of "Streets of London." Turning to the lyrics of sea sonal song, Alpha Phi Delta will turn its house into a "Winter Wonderland" with ornaments and Christmas decorations. Christmas with a. North - Pole atmosphere will be the theme of the annual Christmas dance at Beaver House. Party-goers will enter the "P o 1 a r Promenade" through a huge snowman erected over the outside entrance. Inside they will be greeted by an array of little penguins, sparkling stars, and crepe paper. The affair will be open, with- Walt Mavthouse and his orchestra -providing . the music. In contrast to th e • dress-up Christmas parties, Beta Sigma Rho will stage a roughing-it party, with everyone dressed in dungarees. ' Weird decorations and lots of smoke will t urn the Chi Phi house into an Opium Den. A feel ing of mystery will prevail, with party-goers dressed in Chinese costumes. Dancing will be to the music of Jiminy Erb and his or chestra. A holiday theme will be fea tured at Delia Sigma Phi's annual Christmas dance. Decorations will include a trimmed tree and candy canes. An annual formal pledge din ner dance will be on the calendar at Delta Upsilon, with dancing open to . everyone, 9 to 12. Decorations will be in the Christ mas vein, with the Melody Men providing music. Lambda CM Alpha and Delta Gamma will hold a joint pledge dance at 9 tonight.• A Christmas tree and decorations for the win ter season will set the scene fqr the "Frosty Fantasy."- Joh n n y Brown and his orchestra will fur nish the _music. Shoes of all types will' harig froth the ceiling at Phi Kappa Psi, carrying out the idea of their '`kicks Party." Dancing will be gin at 9:30, and will be open to everyone. s Another combined pledge dance is scheduled at Pi Kappa Phi. The fraternity will join with themem bers of Zeta Tau Alpha for a for mal dinner at 6:30. Dancing to the music of Dave Parker's Com bo will begin at 9. Five Christ mas trees, red and white stream ers, and red and blue lights will set a festive scene. Christmas thoughts will also be prevalent at Sigma Nu, as the annual Christmas pledge dance takes the spotlight. The house will be open to the College for dancing after 8, with Jack Huber and his orchestra on hand to pro vide music. • A web of fun and frolic will be spun at Theta Xi with the an nual "Spider Spin" dance. Joe Knepper and his orchestra will provide music for dancing begin ning at 9. Artificial spiders will form the decorations. Matt Ring to Speak Matt Ring, sPortswriter far the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, will speak at the smoker . for men journalism news majors to be held from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Sunday at Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. SALES ' and SERVICE On FUEL OIL And OIL BURNERS Call STATE GAS ,& OIL PHONE 4;55 THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Delta Sig Initiates British Grad Student The Penn State chapter of Delta Sigma Phi gained an inter national flavor Thursday night when it brotherized Alan Barker, a graduate student from Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, who has been living in the fraternity house since September. Alan, who is taking special work in mining engineering, is in the United States , for one year under a program of the , Economic Cooperation Administration. He is spending one semester at the College, after which he will visit various mining organizations throughout the United States for eight months. After being a student at Dur ham University, 60 miles south of Scotland, for four years, Alan is in a pretty good position to com pare British schools with those in America. One. thing that has struck him is the greater social life at Penn State. At Durham, he' says, the students have parties possibly once or twice a month. The weekly Saturday night af fairs here leave him both sur prised and pleased, No Fraternities Also, students work • more on their own at British schools, he said. Al's entire senior year was spent on a research project which he enjoyed, even though he "wast ed time and got panicky" toward the end. In England, Al says, "there is no need" for fraternities, as social life centers around the hall units in the dormitories. There are also literary societies for those quali fied to join them. The societies are similar to the groups which were the forerunners of Ameri can social fraternities. In this country, however, he thinks they "add a bit to college life." He is rather skePtical about the value of "hell weeks," which, incidentally, he did not have to go through. He feels the hazing period is too long. First Impression Al's strong build testifies to the fact that he was quite a player of rugby—a version of football—at home, although he is too modest to admit it himself. He also entertains the brothers occasionally with English fo 1 k ballads which he calls Tyne-side songs." Al's first impression of Ameri ca was ."totally different"' from his preconceived iaeas, he said, which were taken mostly from American movies. He had expected the country to be much like England, he said, but he found that the customs were so different that at first it seemed like a foreign country. He stressed that the English do not consider America a foreign land. Even though the country itself sdems strange, Al says that the students here are no different than- his friends at home. Even the women, he said, seem about the same. Several weeks ago Al spoke JANE WYMAN ^ CHARLES LAUGHTON • "THE BLUE VEIL" MITZI GAYNOR DENNIS DAY "GOLDEN GIRL" LEO GORCEY in • "CRAZY OVER HORSES" - By BETTIE LOUX 'lran Brew -- (Continued from page four). . the country behind the Iron Cur tain. Yet financial aid would contro vert British Trolley which is based on the belief that in a collapse by the Nationalist government her friends can come back in time to forestall the Communists. I t doesn't seem to be a very sound belief, but it is there, lying, ath wart any prospect of American aid. And there is also the aspect that American aid would in large part represent acquiescence in a peculiarly eastern form of black mail which might, instead of merely allaying a crisis in one country, start a chain reaction throughout the area, producing never-ending crisis. The only solution seems to be to convince the Iranians that the moral victory of suicide will hard ly be profitable. But they seem to have moved into a rarified atmos phere of unreasoning unreality which makes this difficult if not impossible. over WMAJ on a' program spon sored by the Penn State Chris ian Association. The program was a question and answer period concerned with the return of Win ston Churchill as prime minister of England. England's youth, he said, are pretty well divided in politic s, and posses many of the same radical tendencies which he feels American students have. Al is the first foreign student to be initiated into the local chap ter of the fraternity, according to Jack Brougher, president. Ping Pong Playoffs Begin Mon. The intramural ping pong sea son closed Wednesday as 32 women's teams completed .this year's league competition. League leaders will begin play offs for the championship at 8 p.m. Monday. Sigma Delta Tau will compete with Alpha Xi Del ta, and Delta Zeta will take on Alpha Omicron Pi. The title winners are Mc- Elwain, League I; Thompson C, League II; Atherton East, League III; and Kappa Kappa Gamma; League IV. Sigma Delta Tau took top hon ors in, League V; Alpha Xi Delta captured the League VI title; Delta Zeta won first place in League VII; and Alpha Omicron Pi led League VIII. The regular basketball season will end Monday, after the ties in Leagues VII and VIII are broken. Kappa Alpha Theta and Alpha Gamma Delta will compete, and Sigma Delta Tau is scheduled to meet Theta Phi Alpha to deter mine the league winners. Teams which captured the other league titles are McAllister, League I; Leonides, League II; Kappa Delta, League III; Alpha Omicron Pi, League IV; Sim mons, League V, and Kappa Al pha Theta, League VI. Labor Expert to Speak Students and faculty of the De partment of Economics and Com merce will hear a talk by Morris Weiss, special assistant to the commissioner of labor statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, on the current labor scene at 3 p.m. Tuesday in Schwab Auditorium. GLASS RING For Him, For Her, • For Yourself For Christmas at Balfour's ("A" Store) '''....,:"':fs'ilreli':::: :..',.::',,.7,,,•• 4 1p... ' , .--- -....-.... ~,,. A k , :arA ~ . ..,. . ~...„ .. :.. :., . ...„, d i *... • ~ ... ~.,..,,..: ~. .. : .,....,......,.., , , ra ... 1 , „ di. , „,...., 1 „.;,...,is.',‘,•''?7:isszy. 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Beverly Morgan was chosen as the "M od e l Pledge" and was awarded a pledge paddle and a bouquet of red and yellow roses. 0 U/C THE POCKET NEWS MAGAZINE FOR BUSY PEOPLE Get your copy today Jpecial brush and comb sets compacts PAGE -11PPE
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